Access to HIV Services for Mobile and Migrant Populations in Antigua

Responses Number Percentage
Public facility 22 23.1
Private facility 54 56.8
No response 16 16.8
Total 92 96.7
Referral of HIV+ person
41% of the respondents said they would referral someone to the AIDS Secretariat (NAP
Office) if they were HIV+. 30.5% would send them to the Mount St. John’s Medical
Center and 29.4% would send them to 3H. 3.1% would send the person back to their
home country. This does not speak well of our system if someone could be referred back
to another country
Table No. 54- If someone you know is HIV positive, where would you refer them for
support? (Q54). MSM Study. 2012.
Responses Number Percentage
Back home 3 3.1
AIDS Secretariat 39 41.0
Hospital 29 30.5
HHH 28 29.4
Other 6 6.3
Don’t know 5 5.2
Total 110
The participants were questioned about their views on contracting HIV through casual
contact. 90% knew that one cannot contract the virus from being bitten by a mosquito,
93% knew HIV could not be contracted by sharing a meal, 87% knew they could not
contact HIV from sharing a toilet and 92% were aware that a healthy looking person
could be HIV+.
21% thought that they could become HIV+ via mosquito bite and 3.1% weren’t sure. No
one said definitively that they could acquire HIV from sharing a meal but 2% were not
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